How to learn to belly dance
It made me
jingle 
"I stuck with some local classes and now have some experience under my jingle scarf!"
How I did it: I asked a local dance studio that I currently took lessons with (in Jazz and Hip Hop) to offer Belly-Dance. The owner, who trained in Belly Dance, said I needed to get 5 people in order to start a class. I sent out an email to a group of friends and voila!
Lessons & tips: We started out doing the class with no recital. Now after 2-3 sessions of 8 week+ classes we now have enough people to continue a class which plans on doing a recital in June 2010.
Resources: Amira Mor is the Belly Dancer my studio owner trained with. http://www.amiramor.com
